Need to get more trigger time, picked up a new toy...

[scotts90ranger]

Was at an auction and picked up a JC Higgins .22 tube fed bolt action rifle that's apparently a Savage model 86 that's in really good shape and has a super vintage looking Mossberg model 4b scope on top, not a bad $110 I don't think... needed it like a hole in the head but hey... maybe I'll put some rounds through the tube next weekend for good measure

I've been too busy to get trigger time lately, I would like to keep practiced, I have enough cheap ways to do it but this adulting thing is dumb, not much me time...

I do have a handful of skunk beers set aside in the shop, need to set up one of my radiator cores to site this in (they make great reactive targets) then take care of those...

 

[JoshT]

Need to get more trigger time,

That's all you needed to say. Me too. Probably haven pulled the trigger in over a year. That adulting thing you mentioned kinda sucks. Let's me have those toys, but gets in the way of using them.

JC Higgins... That's probably like my Ted Williams Model 100. Ted Williams was a Sears Roebuck branding. Aside from a couple of cosmetic tweaks, it is in every way a Winchester Model 94 .30-30.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I have several of the Sears/Wards iterations of outdoor stuff, it's just rebranded other things, this one happens to be a Stevens/Savage different model numbers are Marlin and I think some Mossberg, I know I have a couple old pellet guns that are made by Crosman but branded in the Sears/wards names...

I've gotten some trigger time lately, couple weeks ago I took out a couple pest birds with a pellet gun, got the deer a week and a half ago... I picked up a pellet gun rated dueling tree last spring and welded some studs to an old disc brake rotor to mount it to, it's kinda fun for plinking, my resetting squirrel target will mount to the top of that so I'll get that out in the yard here at some point to plink from the shop man door . Pellet guns are easier here since I'm pretty limited in safe to shoot zones without having to think much but with pellet guns and shotguns I don't have to think about the backdrop much other than what's in the sight picture.

 

[superj]

over a year here, too. the local range shut down from the city harassing the owners so much because they wanted to build a school on the guy's land. he had owned that range since before i moved here in 1993. now its gone. it sucks because the next closest one requires a year membership to shoot at

 

[scotts90ranger]

Got a few rounds through the new .22, took a few adjustments of the front of the scope mount to get it close to zero. Got a bit frustrating since the firing pin or hammer is sticky apparently but being a bolt action you can just push the bolt up a bit to reset the hammer... so I gave up after 10 rounds when it was close then went to the shop and pulled the bolt and oiled the pin and hammer and cycled it like 50 times... Will check it at more than 20 yards sometime later